Projects and Publications

The Combined Caesarea Expeditions (CCE) is an amphibious archaeological project that joins excavations in the terrestrial remains of ancient Caesarea, a Roman city on the Mediterranean present-day Israel, with underwater investigations in the ancient city's harbor.

The Freedmen and Southern Society Project is preparing a multi-volume documentary history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the United States South. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 depicts the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants: liberated slaves and defeated slaveholders, soldiers and civilians, common folk and the elite.

Janus: The University of Maryland Undergraduate History Journal was created in the fall of 2000 by a group of undergraduate history students at the University of Maryland. Janus features writings relevant to the study of history, and seeks to grant students a voice in the academic world by providing a chance to publish their work and participate formally in scholarly debates.

Kritika is a quarterly journal edited and based in College Park and published by Slavica Publishers in Bloomington, Indiana. The founding editors of the journal are Michael David-Fox of the Maryland Department of History, Marshall Poe of Harvard University, and Peter Holquist of Cornell University. In a previous incarnation, Kritika was published at Harvard University from 1964-1984, and the new series has been published since January 2000. Several regular features of the new Kritika set it apart from other journals, notably the regular inclusion of forums and exchanges, the publication of special issues that set agendas for further research, and the journal's trademark review essays - lengthy analyses of publications in Russian and other languages that are rarely if ever reviewed elsewhere in North America. Special issues published so far have included the January 2000 number on "Resistance to Authority in Russian and Soviet History," the Spring 2001 issue on "The State of the Field: Russian History Ten Years After the Fall," and the Summer 2001 number on "Negotiating Cultural Upheavals: Cultural Memory and Politics in 20th-Century Russia." An on-line version of the journal will be published by Project Muse of Johns Hopkins University Press starting in 2002.

The Samuel Gompers Papers is creating, through its multi-volume printed edition and microfilm publications, a documentary history of the rise of the American labor movement. The project is collecting the papers of the labor leader and founder of the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers (an estimated 750,000 pages), publishing a selective, annotated, twelve-volume printed edition of the most significant documents in the collection, and producing a comprehensive microform edition that will complement the microfilmed Gompers Letterbooks at the Library of Congress.

Contact persons for these projects are indicated at the bottom of their Web pages.